The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - Moving the Bat Paste!

Episode Date: March 31, 2025

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Thanks for being down with us. Kavino and Rich. Hope you had a nice weekend. A Yankees torpedo volpito bats sort of weekend. I was Sam. Is that a torpedo bat in your pants? Are you just happy for a show? Whoa.

I think that answers that. Oh, my goodness. a Paige Becker's Yukon dropping 40 sort of weekend. Not a Raphael Devers striking out at every app bat sort of weekend. Oh, no. I think he's striking out as we speak. I'm Kavino. That is Rich. What a weekend it was.

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your kids lost yours. So try to win one later on. When we play last one standing, we played every Monday, it's the game that's sweeping the nation. So lots to get to. So pumped about this show. I'm just pumped, rich, because the Yankees scored 130 runs this weekend.

I mean, it felt like it, right? Yeah. We got to talk about this torpedo bat. I know everyone else has, but I feel like our opinion's more fun and better. So, first of all, as a Mets fan, Danny G. as a Dodgers fan,

Iowa Sam, Dodgers fan. I mean, you're the Yankee guy here, Kavino. I would love to hate on you. I would love to say, cheating, bogus, BS. But they've done nothing wrong. Anyone that's opposing what the Yankees are doing, Just a bunch of damn haters.

It's funny that you say, I would love to say cheating and all that. That's what everybody's saying online. There's so much misinformation and so many people who are so upset by this, but I keep hearing the wrong rumors over and over and over again. They're pretending and acting like all the Yankees are using it. It was designed for Anthony Volpe. That's why I said the Volpego bat because he wasn't getting around on the ball. He kept hitting the ball on the logo.

So they said, let's make the meteor part of the bat where the logo is closer to the handle. So essentially you're changing where the girth is. Yes, exactly. And girth could be distributed in different places on everybody. Didn't he once say girth is worth? Oh, yeah. So the only people that used it for the Yankees this weekend and they hit nine home runs in one game, like 14, 15 home runs over the weekend. Only jazz Chisholm and Volpe are using it. So the thought that Aaron Judge and Goldschmidt and all these guys, no. That's fake. The fact that it's illegal, also false and fake.

The rules are simple. Everyone's throwing out these rules as if they're experts. Rule 3.02. According to the MLB, bats can't be thicker than 2.61 inches, right? 2.61. That's what she said. And guess what?

It's not bigger than 2.61. That's the magic number here. It's just distributed differently. It has to be made of solid wood. Guess what? That's what it's made of. solid wood, just distributed differently. Can't have a cut in the hole.

The tip of the bat, deeper than one inch. It does not. 42 inches in length, that's the limit. And those are the rules. And it just goes by the rules. They were just innovative and changed it up a little bit. What's surprising, what's more surprising which is that it took this long for someone to try to innovate something. That's what happens when nerds and jocks collaborate.

Right. Yankees got an MIT, like, scientist nerds. Aaron. When you get nerds and jocks working together, look what happens. How do you think you're going to beat the alpha betas any other way, right? Do you know what? Get that javelin? Yeah.

Lamar Luttrell. Well, you are just looking for every advantage, every edge. We'll not deny that, but I think it's smart. You know, it's like, are you mad that pitchers are throwing 108 miles per hour now? The game changes the game advances. equipment changes all the time, all the time. And if it's in the parameters of the MLB rules, then what's the problem besides all the lies that are being told on social media?

Social media, I haven't seen a story explode like this in social media in a while. Wait, you mean the story today about the Yankees big new gloves that they're doing in the outfield this week? That's fake. I saw how they changed the Yankees logo too to make it like a fat wiffle ball bet because the K in the Yankees like traditional logo. big red plastic bat that all the kids have when they're toddlers or that vortex bat that hit bombs like Mark McGuire.

Look, we've seen it all and it's hilarious. But people are so mad about it. And I'm thinking, well, it's just a matter of time before everybody gets them. They're already putting shipments in. Your boiling doors already been on that. There's other players that have them. Yeah, Minnesota Twin used it over the weekend. Yeah, they've already been approved by the MLB.

Now, do they have to go through some sort of? re-approval per team. That I don't know. But the Yankees aren't the only ones allowed to use it. And to me, it makes perfect sense. I'm more surprised than anything that it took this long for them to figure something like that out. The other part of the advantage rich that no one's really talking about is, all right, again, Volpey, he was basically getting jam, not getting around quick enough to get the barrel on the ball, right?

So they said, well, let's make the barrel closer to the handle. Move the meat of the bat. But when you do that, it also appears to be lighter. So think about it from that perspective, right? If you're using a 34-ounce bat, but you move the meat closer to the handle, it feels like a 32-ounce bat. Because the heavy part isn't at the end, wasted at the end. So it's really just smarter than anything. And here's the other side.

Not everybody likes it. Not everybody's using it because it feels weird to them. It feels different. So they're not going to change it up. It's like some of those slap hitters with the axe handle. Right, yes, not for everybody. It's a redesign. And dude, it's only a story because the Yankees are doing it. If it was the

White Sox, no one would give a didly squat. Yeah, let's not forget. The Yankees played at home. They have a small ballpark early on in the season. Hard to not hit one out, right? So Yankees are on fire. I'll give you that. I think it is crazy how everyone thinks the whole team's using it when it really is

Vulpe and Chisham. And, you know, Aaron Judge on fire. The guy is not using one of these bats. But there's one thing I want to make clear. If the rest of the league starts using it, could the Yankee fans not do this whole, oh, your copycats? Because it's like if the first team in the NFL

that came up with a cool face mask and everyone else uses it, no, I just don't want to hear Yankee fans call people copycats. I mean, I already did on social media. But yeah, no, I think it's fair. That's also fair. I don't see any problem with this. I find it odd that people do. To me, it just makes sense.

Again, I'm more surprised than, anything that it took this long to happen. Because we see equipment innovation all the time. Why was the bat the same way for so long? We need to ask ourselves that. Like, I know it's not for hitting, but when Giancarlo Stanton got hit in the face, remember he came back with that cool metal little flap?

Didn't that turn into every player having a little bit of a flap extender on the helmet? No one said, through copying John Carlo. It's, you know, you see a cool innovation. You do it, right? man and as our buddy Jim Ramsey our unofficial consultant of the show

Jim Ramsey hit us up from North Carolina and he said the torpedo bats are an example of a broader relatable point sometimes you need to challenge that's the way we've always done it so that's the way it stays that's the way we've always done it to see what's possible and what might actually

be better and this might be better for some for some and for all the like I said the Red Sox haters and the port noise out there saying the Yankees are cheap and cheating. It's just a matter of time before your broke-ass

Raphael Devers has one too. But give me a break. The reality is not everyone's going to want these. Not everybody's going to want them. Not everybody's going to want them. There's innovations with helmet designs in the NFL. There's innovations with, I'm sure, compression sleeves and socks and everything in the NBA.

You just might not be comfortable with it. It's not my style. If you think every guy next week's going to have a torpedo bat, you're mistaken. Some guys are like, no, the way I like my bat distributed is this way. Everybody has their own example of that. Like there's a new piece of equipment at the office. And, you know, some people are like, yeah, I like it.

And then other people like, no, man, I like the old way better. I'm more comfortable with the old way. You know, it would be like all these people like a couple of years back. Do you remember when everyone in corporate America decided to have a standing desk? Yeah, it's not for me. And then some people would have a treadmill and they'd be like working and doing their emails while they're on their treadmill. I mean, there's always an innovation. I mean, listen, when we came here to Fox,

I'm not saying we're the torpedo bats of FSR. Oh, I'm tweeting that out right now. Kavino and Rich, the torpedo bats of Fox Sports Radio. No, I remember when... Heavy in the middle, light on top. I remember her... More like the twerpito bats. Twerpito bats.

Sticks at the bottom, big heads. Gertie and delivers. The reason I say this is because when we first got here, I remember one of the first interviews we did. was Henry Winkler. Hi. I'm the Fonz. Wowie, Zowie. I remember it was right around the time when Winkler had that funny interaction with Mahomes on the field.

And he's like, yeah, come over for dinner. And he's like, you're welcome at my dinner table anytime. You're welcome, Patrick. I remember. Now, we wanted to interview the Fons because we're pals with them. I remember some people around here were like, yeah, have them call up. And we said, well, why don't we do a Zoom call? That way we could get video in better quality.

And at first it was like, well, no one really does that around here. And I remember us being like, why not? Why not? We just don't do it that way. Well, says who? Sometimes you have to question the, well, we don't do it around here that way. And you're sticking within the rules that are written. I mean, take it back to your earliest level of Little League.

Hey, Rich, when everyone had a ceramic pad, you were curious about it. But did you go out and buy one and jump on it? Were you just comfortable with yours? Some people love them. Some people didn't. That's what I mean. Like it worked for some and some people loved it. But I guess what I stuck with my Easton Big Barrel?

You know, Dan Byer. My black magic. Dan Byer, who's a student of the game, not just baseball, football. I'm going to bring up. I think Colin Stars insinuated it's Belichickian. And I'll be honest, I thought the same exact thing. Because, Dan, wasn't there a rule where Belichick found the way to run the clock out more? And it's like, ah, very tricky, Belich.

and they said we're going to change that rule. Yeah, yeah. Vrable actually used it against Belichick in a game as well, which ultimately led to the change. I look at it as from the world of golf, to be honest with you, of trying to get an advantage. There's rules that your club needs to fit in, but as a guy who's not a professional,

I need a bigger club face because they don't always hit it on the sweet spot. When I don't, I want it to go a little bit more straighter. So like a tour pro wouldn't use my clubs because they would want their own in a certain way. It's not an exact parallel, but that's kind of how I looked at it. Dan, question, because I don't know, I'm not the PGA expert like you are,

but when we were kids and you'd watch highlights of Chi Chi Rodriguez doing funny handshakes, and you'd be watching all the highlights with your dad. They had regular putters. Who was the first to have the, I hold the putter a funny way and do all that? Because that, I'm guessing, at first. Whoever the first few golfers that did that,

You don't think they were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. What are they doing with this different type of putter? I could tell you Bernard Longer was one of the first to do it. You don't think there was resistance by some, like, what is this guy doing? There was, because it also looked funky as well. And then there's a whole different point to that of an anchoring, because what they would do is they put the club to the chest. But just the point of it being different.

I mean, there are golf putters now that you guys see where, you know, there's a big white circle, you know, around it or two of them, which then lines up in the, They'll call them like a two-ball putter. And putters never looked like that. No. You know, 30, 40 years ago, and now they do. Kavino, I know you're a big bowling guy.

You see what bowlers bowl like now? Oh, with two hands. They take two hands and do it. Yeah. I remember the first guy that I remember seeing. It was a guy, I think his name was like, I'm not a monicelli. And I would see him use two.

Well, actually, I started that when I was like five years old. Oh, yeah. I think I invented it. But then I saw a bunch of other people. people doing it all the time just became the way. So again, my confusion is more how social media has run with this and people are mad about it when it's going to be fair for everybody. And why do you want to give so much advantage to the pitcher but not the batter here?

That's what I don't get. The pitchers always doing a little something. Batters can't change how the bat is shaped since when. But again, we've never seen anything like this before so people are afraid of it. You know what it comes down to? People, and I think more people are just mad about the fact that the Yankees were the ones that thought of it first. That's really what you're mad about. Imagine if the Dodgers came out.

Oh, man. That's it. That's it. It would have been even worse. I didn't think it could. That's all people are mad about. I do think it's BS. The Yankees are going to wear graduation caps tomorrow night to show us smart they are. With an N.Y on the cardboard piece, tassel the whole deal.

I think the jokes are hilarious, though. Like, I've been entertained so much by the torpedo. bad that everybody's talking about. It really is a great story. It's made for some great memes over the weekend. What a hilarious. What a great start. So the hatred that everyone's thrown at the Yankees, I do find to be as the Yankees fan, like, hilarious and entertaining. I just don't understand all the lies about it. I'll tell you why.

I'll be honest, look yourself in the mirror and I will as well. It's people that love to read headlines. I guess so. And not the story. And I have another example. Like the same way, at first, to be honest, if you want to know the truth, at first, I also thought it was the whole Yankee team. Because of, yeah, because that's how it seems. Until you read the article and you're like, oh, no, it's Volpe and Chisholm. And by the way, I mean, they hit nine home runs in one game, a team record.

So, of course, that shines a huge light on the fact that they have different shaped bats. I mean, remember like a week ago, all that stuff about what's underneath the pyramids? And if you just read the headline, you probably still think there stuff underneath the pyramids. This is also why you need time to look. underneath at the comments too because there were Yankee experts in there immediately correcting all the boneheads saying I can't believe judge hit those three home runs with one of these bats and a Yankee expert like Kovina right underneath that saying hey bonehead he wasn't even using that bat yeah it makes the idiot so dumber you know I'll give you the

example if you want to rewind about a year ago Danny because I think a lot of people on this network were incorrect in saying do you remember the female boxer who everyone immediately was like She's trans. For sure. And it was like, I mean, everybody thought that. That's the truth. Yeah, because the, that's how the story. It's like a bad game of telephone.

What did I tell you guys? We put the brakes on that on our show because I was like, let's let the dust settle on this before we, you know, have a strong stance on it. But that bad game of telephone is strong. We got to be real careful with that. You know, how many legitimate broadcasters were calling that female boxer trans. And listen, there were idiosyncrasies. They were levels to it. I believe that. But we were the ones that were like,

ah, pump the brakes. We didn't run with that the way everyone else did. I mean, that was the story, though, too. So you're like, well, what am I supposed to believe if that's the story? Let's just get this clear right now. This is a legal bat. The Yankees ran it by the MLB. It's not called a torpedo bat. That just sort of organically happened. It's more shaped like a bowling pin than anything. it's not that big of a difference. It's just distributed in a different way. And it's like wasted mass at the tip of the bat.

You don't want to hit the baseball at the tip of the bat. So they just brought it toward the logo. Raphael Devers is stepping into the batters box, by the way. I'll see if he strikes out. You're expecting a strikeout? And I heard the Braves and a bunch of other teams already put their orders in for these new torpedo bats, which some people are going to like, guys like Jazz Chisham.

who are open to like, yeah, man, I like it. And then other people who are just already feeling good about the bat that they use that are not going to mess with whatever's not broke. Like I said, a few minutes ago, think of how many people, you know, gave that axe-handle bat a chance. Like, yeah, I'll take some swings. And some people are like, no, not for me. And there's a few players that stuck with it. So innovate or die, I think it's cool.

Like you, Dan and Danny Gene, everyone said, I promise you, Rich, I swear. If it was another team, let's say it was your Mets, right? Yeah. be more mad that you guys came up with the idea first and that we're now playing catch-up to the Mets. But I would not be mad that there was a loophole that someone figured out that was a legal loophole to make the game more exciting for more offense. I would not be mad about that if it was fair for everyone else to use.

There was a company. There was a first company that said, let me use social media to promote my business. Now every single company does it. like there's going to be one person that or how about like chat gpt people who want to use chat gpt to their advantages and other people are like well i don't know if that's okay it's like well we have the ability to do this why can't we this also reminded me a little bit of the champions during covid not fair it's bubbles mickey mouse everybody had the same chance yeah that's true everyone has the same opportunity here you know unless you're a pitcher in the MLB i don't know what

everyone's so mad about. All right. Well, listen, we have one more pitch because I want to see if Deber strikes out. It's full count. He had a tough weekend. Then we'll take your feedback on the torpedo bat. We'll talk about a new move the Mets are doing. We've got some NBA, some NFL, with the 3-2 pitch. Let's see what happens here.

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and Mookie Betts hits a walkoff. And you know what he went through? What does he weigh? 125 pounds. He looks so little at home plate. And he hits a bomb like that. The place erupted. It was so fun to be out at that night. Yeah. I sure he's just not on Ozmpic? I don't know. Maybe so. No, I'm glad he's

better. Iowa Sam on the ones and twos. D.B's got your updates. Spotty's on the videos at Covino and Rich. Look, it's a new innovation. Stop crying about the torpedo bat. Don't buy into the lies. It's a by the MLB. It doesn't exceed the specifications that MLB requires for a major league baseball bat. Again, it can't be thicker than 2.61 inches. It has to be solid wood. It can't have a cut deeper than one inch on the tip of the bat and it can't be over 42 inches in length.

None of these bats are. Not all the Yankees are using them. Everybody's able to use them. Like I said, I don't know what the approval is. Like, Rich, if all of a sudden the Mets want to throw a specified order in. I don't know how long that takes. I don't know. How long that takes? I don't know what the rules are with that, but already teams are putting their orders in, players are going to give it a try, either they're going to like it or they're not. It's like, there's always an innovation that people jump on too and then some people don't like. So not everyone's going to use it and not all the Yankees are. For example, one that comes to mind, it's a stupid one, but like lane assistants on my car, some people love it. I is all hated. Yeah, I feel that.

I'm like, ah, I don't like it. And other people swear by it. right. I had a car that had something you love, and I'm like, yeah, I don't need that. That's a heads-up display. Where on your windshield, you see like the hologram of your navigation? I'm like, yeah, no thanks. I don't need that. I love that, and I lean into it. That innovation works for me. Not all new stuff is good for everybody. That's why guys like Aaron Judge, and I doubt Jean-Carlo Stanton, guys like that won't use the new bat, but younger players might be open to it.

Look at it like anything in life. There's people that are reluctant and resistors. And there's people that love to jump on a new trend just to even give it a shot. For instance, just recently, how long has the coffee company Starbucks been around? You ever heard of him? Kavino finally, well, like weeks ago, you're like, yeah, I'm mobile water now. Weeks is a stretch, but I would say about a year. No, no, no, no. Yeah, I'll prove it to you.

Sounds of fine. But you're right. I was way late on it. Kavino was the guy that would go to Starbucks and wait in the line. The line. Like, who does that? I mean, I like waiting in line. Another thing.

We live, we live here at Fox Sports Radio. We live here at Fox next to an El Pollo Loco, which is a little, you know, chicken fast food place. Up until recently. I don't. I don't have the app for that. I don't. So you walk in an order and wait 15 minutes. I don't go there every day.

It's not 15 minutes. Yeah, I don't. It's like ready. There's a little kiosk and I, yeah, I don't go there enough to like want to flood my phone up with. You could save some of your hard-earned dollars. too because you can, you know, scan those apps. Yeah. Scan the codes.

The point is, it's the same thing here. You just said something boomerish. You said clog up your phone with an app? Yeah, I don't want it. I don't need it. I don't need it. Some of us do hate having to sign into every freaking thing. I'm not there all the time.

Log into this. Log into that. Screw it. But it proves your point, Rich. What do you got a remote? It proves your point. Some guys like jazz chishol are like, yeah, give me the app. I'll use the new stuff.

Sam's got a cordy keyboard. Some people not open. into it. But there's also debates, and those are fun too, on do you get more of a sweet spot? So if you hit it outside of the sweet spot, are you getting less of an impact than you would have got before? Right. I know Mike was arguing. Wasn't Mike and DB arguing about that off the year? Oh, Mike who runs this place? Yeah. Because I've heard several people talk about it. Because you're shortening or you're compacting the sweet spot closer to the handle. Now, if you hit it toward the end of the bat, maybe you would have got a little juice

out of it before where you're actually maybe going to get less juice out of it. Now, I'm sort of getting that understanding too. Like, it's not all bombs that you're going to get out of it. You really just have to hit that sweet spot. Think about it. If you're taking, toward meat, the meat of the bat. If you're taking the meat from somewhere. So meaty.

And you're putting it. You're losing meat somewhere. Right. Like it's like, you know. It's squeezing the toothpaste tube. Like, like, Muky. You take the meat out of somewhere. You know, Spot made a great analogy there. Picture a tube of toothpaste.

The Yankees are just squeezing the toothpaste a little more towards the middle of the tube. The middle bottom. Yeah, middle bottom. Middle bottom. Where, you know. If I was the guy who invented this, though, what was his name? They call them Lenny. Lenny Aaron Linerd.

Yeah. I would want it named after me, especially with other teams copying it. I'd want it to be the Lenny. leaping Lenny liner. I was pushing for the Volpeedo bat because they did it for Anthony Volpe. They did it kind of. Yeah, but Volpe didn't invent the actual bat. If I'm Lenny, I'm like, I want my name on it.

And if I'm not mistaken, this guy was so innovative and so instrumental in this change, again, the Yankees hired him just for that. I think the Marlins picked them up as a coach. He got a batting coach job with the Marlins. Yeah, because there's so much analytics involved in how to improve hitting and pitching is getting better. He's now a field coordinator with the Marlins. I've had enough hitting I've said this last week but you know how your algorithm

is really a reflection of who you are now you look up one coaching hitting video Kavino you know how many products there are so I'm not shocked by this there are when I'm not exaggerating hundreds of different products like here's a bat but it's not it's a rope

and if you can't hit off the tee with this rope your hand speeds they have something for everything so I'm not shocked and I feel like you're only going to see more and more innovation with gloves, cleats, bats. It's science mixed with athleticism more than ever. And if it stays within the rules, then what do you complaining about? You got a problem?

Yeah, what's your problem? Relax. So, yeah, my algorithm rich all weekend was, unfortunately, that terrible earthquake in Thailand, 7-7 on the Andy Richter scale. Horrible footage. You see those people in the pool on the roof? And torpedo bats. Oh, my God. Yeah, that was frightening.

All right. Well, hopefully you had a great weekend, a torpedo bat type of weekend. Let's go to Dan By for an update. Let's see what else is going on in the world of sports. What's up, buddy? Hey, guys, busy day in baseball. You had your eyes on that Orioles Red Sox game. Boston tried to mount a bit of a comeback.

They were unsuccessful. Orioles end up getting an 8-5 win in that contest. Right now in Philadelphia, Nick Castiano's just hit a home run. Phillies extending their lead over the Rock. He's 6 to 1. Kyle Schwabers also homered in this game for Philadelphia. The White Sox were 9-0-0-0 winners against the twins earlier today while in Milwaukee. And the pitch and a swing and a blast down the left field line.

That's way back there. It's fair. It's gone. It's fair and it's gone. A home run. Salvador Perez is first of the year. It's 5-0. All Royals today, they beat the Brewers by a score of 11 to 1.

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But how do you feel about getting off to a smoking hot start or really stretch? Because I'm looking at the standings now, and I know there's 162 games. And you could argue, hey, my Mets started 0 and 5 last year. Remember how depressing they were? 0 and 5? Because right now, two teams that were postseason teams last year, you just mentioned the brew crew, Brewers and the Braves are both 0 and 4. And the Dodgers, 5 and 0, Padres.

Yeah, but the Braves got that shipment of bats coming in. But I'm saying, like, when you get off to that rough start, like the Mets are 1 and 2, I'm not really bummed. They win tonight. All of a sudden you're 2 and 2. but when you start 0 and 4, 0 and 5, then I feel like it's such as, you got to win 5 in order to get back to 500. I feel like you're chasing the first month or so.

I also think there's a completely different feeling with the Brewers. Now they run into a buzzsaw like the Yankees. But Milwaukee last year, remember, they were coming off of a season where Corbyn Burns went to Baltimore. Yeah. Their manager went to the Cubs. They had this chip on their shoulder, and I think they wrote it all the way through the season.

And now maybe some of that catches up with you. Maybe you weren't as good of a team as you were last year. and now this year you're paying the tax on that. Yeah. And as a Mets fan, I do not mind the Braves being 0 and 4, but I just wonder, like you said, you go 5 and 1 over your next six games and you're back to 500. Like, no one likes chasing how much. The hot start doesn't matter that much because it's a long season,

but you don't want to start from behind, right? I'd rather start hot than like the Braves have started. Yeah. Well, listen, I have a quick, dumb sports hypothetical. I think you guys will get down with. We'll do that next. We're going to play midweek major. We're going to talk about something. Did I say midweek major?

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And I looked at the comments and they were still like, uh, translation, you suck. And you. Sucing. you need a cheating bat. Like, how do I'm doing? That's why I can't believe even Dave Portnoy leans into that. He's a smart guy. Come on. You can't be serious. You're just stirring the pot or like you're like rallying the boneheads.

I don't understand how you could even compare this to steroids or consider this cheating when they just changed the shape of the bat up a little bit. Yeah, it's not cheating. But it is such a huge story. And I guess because it just seems so obvious. but no one ever thought to do it. Props to the Yankees is going to change the game. And if it's a little too much, like we've seen changes in the past, like the shift. Right?

Well, why didn't they ever do that before? I don't know. And, you know, it didn't work. So they changed it back. Yeah. Where we're not allowed. So, hey, it's going to be an exciting season regardless. Until you can't do something, it's not cheating if you do it.

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Because he's legend to me. I also wanted to give one baseball note over the weekend. I guess I still root for him. Didn't do anything wrong to me personally. Jacob de Grom. Nice to see him have a really solid first start. Five innings, six strikeouts. Looked like the Cy Young guy from years past. So if DeGrom's healthy, the Rangers could make some noise

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Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. The Mets are losing. If a Grand Slam... What's better than the Mets at the time? I don't know. Putting something on my kids will watch, so they're not bored. I don't know. For me, it's just good background.

Even if they're losing, it's just baseball. I don't want to say. If the Mets are lose... If a Grand Slam can't tie the game and it's after the sixth inning, I'm like, see you tomorrow. There's 160. two games. Last night.

This is weak. I don't know how you lean in today, especially on Fox Sports Radio. I'm going to lie to everyone? No. But I think I think you should just be better than that. No thing you need to lie. Well, better than that is actually saying, all right, the game's over. There's 162 games.

I'm going to go watch something else. The whole beauty of sports is watching them come back and fight back. You're the guy that would watch your team down by 25 points in the fourth quarter? Yeah, because you're in it. You're an idiot. Through thick and thin. Rich is only in it through thin. I'm only in a through torpedo.

Sickness and health, which is like, nope, just health. See you later. It's a character flaw. I'm out. I understand if your kid's tugging on your leg because he's dying to watch Blippy. I understand that. But he can watch on his tablet.

Character flaw, because if you're a Cubs fan and if you've got nothing else going on, what? But who has nothing else going on? Losers? A rerun of friends is better than the actual live game that's on right now. Let's take a walk around the block. Hey, kids,

You want to watch a movie together, family movie night. Okay. My point is... Which episode of Friends. Yeah. I mean, Dib Diff... Which is acting like he's not watching every piece of trash on Netflix. This is the one where they compete to swap apartments.

That's a really funny one. He's acting like he's doing something constructive. Well, my point is, if you're a Cubs fan and they're losing 12-4 in the seventh inning, Kavino's the guy that's like, why would he not still watch? I don't know. Because the game's over? That's what most people that you're talking to do. Would you stay at that game in person?

Yes, because I paid for that. And I'm a fan. God, you're a maniac. I think 80% of the people listening would agree with me. And not you. I'm pretty confident. No way. Jose.

You mean the people tuned in to listen to us banter about sports. When their team's losing, they tune out. Doesn't mean they're dumb sports fans. So, you know, how confident and certain you are there is your character flaw. I think you're gross in what you're saying and how you're saying it. I think you are a jackass. All right. So let me explain my hypothetical.

Danny, when your team's losing, you still watch? I do. Hey, Sam, if your team's losing, you still keep it on. Depends on how much they're losing by. Say? So what's the... What about comebacks? You don't believe in them? Iowa is down 35 to 7 to Ohio State. I'm turning it off. Yeah. If it's like midway through the third quarter, why would I want to... That's S&M that's safe. No one wants to watch it, but you don't just keep it on.

You could go about your day and make yourself a sandwich while that game's on. I kind of side with Rich here. Like, if there... Wouldn't you feel bad? If your team... roared back and made a historic comeback. That's not going to happen, though. I'm realistic. I know that it has happened. All of our teams have made big comeback.

Not Iowa football's offense. If they're making a big comeback, guess what I'm going to get? Text messages to my friends are like, you see you in this? And that just means turn on TV back on because maybe they're like starting to you're the guy watching modern family again. Yeah, I'd rather watch that.

I'd rather watch that. But Rich, you'll be halfway around the block walking with your kids, so you're going to have to run back to your house. I'm not one dimensional, like some ass clowns in this room. Not to mention you can't have the game on. on headphones or something and take a walk. Like, he's acting like you have to choose. But you think I should be...

I should be walking around the block with my kids with a headphone in to make sure the Mets who are down 9-1 don't make a comeback? Do you act like you're giving every spare moment of your life to your child? Give me a break. They're very busy coloring.

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